Easy Ego State Interventions: Strategies for Working With

Easy Ego State Interventions: Strategies for Working With Parts

Quick, essential techniques to practice ego state therapy, a popular therapeutic approach.

Most of us have different aspects, â€œparts,â€ or â€œego statesâ€ of ourselvesâ€”the silly and imaginative five-year-old part, for example, or the depressed, anxious, or angry adolescentâ€”which manifest as particular moods, behaviors, and reactions depending on the demands of our external and internal environments. â€œEgo state therapyâ€ refers to a powerful, flexible therapy that helps clients integrate and reconcile these distinct aspects of themselves.

This book offers a grab bag of ego state interventionsâ€”simple, practical techniques for a range of client issuesâ€”that any therapist can incorporate in his or her practice. In her characteristic wise, compassionate, and user-friendly writing style, Robin Shapiro explains what ego states are, how to access them in clients, and how to use them for a variety of treatment issues. After covering foundational interventions for accessing positive adult states, creating internal caregivers, and working with infant and child states in Part I: Getting Started With Ego State Work, Shapiro walks readers step-by-step through a variety of specific interventions for specific problems, each ready for immediate application with clients. Part II: Problem-Specific Interventions includes chapters devoted to working with trauma, relationship challenges, personality disorders, suicidal ideation, and more.

Ego state work blends easily, and often seamlessly, with most other modalities. The powerful techniques and interventions in this book can be used alone or combined with other therapies. They are suitable for garden-variety clients with normal developmental issues like self-care challenges, depression, grief, anxiety, and differentiation from families and peer groups. Many of the interventions included in this book are also effective with clients across the dissociation spectrumâ€”dissociation is a condition particularly well suited to ego state workâ€”including clients who suffer trauma and complex trauma. Rich with case examples, this book is both a pragmatic introduction for clinicians who have never before utilized parts work and a trove of proven interventions for experienced hands to add to their therapeutic toolbox. Welcome to a powerful, flexible resource to help even the most difficult clients build a sense of themselves as adult, loveable, worthwhile, and competent.
Country USA
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-02-01
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	W. W. Norton & Company
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-02-01
Format	Kindle eBook

Easy Ego State Interventions: Strategies for Working With Parts

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